Re: [atf-dev] ATF Config?

[Robert Goodman <goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kurt

You can't just debug a _javascript_ file.
In Firefox when you type in a URL that points to a _javascript_ file, the
source of the _javascript_ file is shown. When ATF debugs a _javascript_ file,
it runs in the same engine that is in Firefox. That is the reason that
"Debug in Mozilla" only show up for a HTML file. 

There is limited integration between
the PHP IDE and ATF at this point. This is one of the things on the list
to work on. There is no integration between ATF's _javascript_ Debugger and
the PHP debugger. ATF and PHP use different server deployment mechanism.
ATF uses base eclipse Web Tools server support and PHP uses it own deployment
mechanism. You can right click on a html file in a PHP project and do a
"Debug in Mozilla". The project including the PHP files will
be deployed out to a HTTP server. Do no use the embedded HTML preview server
since that server doesn't support PHP. 

It is interesting that we never added
a file association for "Debug in Mozilla" for a PHP file. There
is a very difficult problem with debugging PHP files that contains/generate
HTML and _javascript_.  ATF's _javascript_ debugger runs in the context
of the browser, so the HTML/_javascript_ that is delivered to the browser
does not match what is in the PHP file. In this cases we don't know how
to map the breakpoints in the PHP file to the location when running in
the browser. It should be possible for the PHP file to contain some HTML
with a _javascript_ src attribute that loads a _javascript_ file and to have
breakpoints in the _javascript_ file. I'm a little surprise that nobody has
ask for this capability before. I'm going to open a bug for this, since
it gets us a little more integration between the PHP IDE and ATF. 

    Thanks
      Bob


Robert Goodman
IBM Emerging Technologies
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512-838-8824    T.L. 678-8824

kurt miller <miller_kurt_e@xxxxxxxxx>
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I'm not a developer so if  there is a more appropriate
newsgroup then 
please direct me there.

I'm fairly new to Eclipse - though it doesn't feel
that way given the 
number of hours/days I've spent getting things
configured and working :-)

I'm confused about file associations in ATF. 

Dojo is my AJAX toolkit.

In Eclipse, from the PHP perspective, when I right
click on a .js file 
and select Debug As..., there is no 'Debug in Mozilla'
option listed.  
If I do the same for a .html file (as in the demo)
then the 'Debug in 
Mozilla' is available.  What am I missing conceptually
here?  Shouldn't 
I be able to debug any _javascript_ within any PHP
project? How do I 
configure ATF to debug a .js file? 

Thanks,
-km


       
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